Re: [Nolug] spaces in environment variables conflicting with "echo"

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> $ ls -1 |grep ' '
> foo bar
> foo snafu
> $
> $ for f in `ls -1 |grep ' '`;
> > do
> > echo "$f";
> > done
> foo
> bar
> foo
> snafu
>
>
> Naturally, I don't want that!!! What's the magical sequence of
> characters to get it to print out the complete file names?

How about this? It works fine for me on Darwin.

localhost% for f in "`ls | grep ' '`";
for> do
for> echo "$f"
for> done
foo bar
foo snafu
localhost%

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